Flaherty, Torres help Tigers snap six-game losing streak with 10-4 win over Blue Jays

DETROIT (AP) — Jack Flaherty pitched six scoreless innings, Gleyer Torres hit a three-run homer and the Detroit Tigers ended a six-game losing streak with a 10-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

Detroit had lost 12 of its past 13 games. Toronto fell to 8-2 since the All-Star break.

Flaherty (6-10) allowed a double and four singles. He struck out seven and walked one to end a seven-start winless streak.

Max Scherzer (1-1), pitching on his 41st birthday, fell to 2-3 in five career starts against his former team. He allowed three hits in seven innings, including Torres' homer, and struck out 11 without issuing a walk.

Dillon Dingler started the third with a single and took third on a Parker Meadows double. Scherzer retired the next two batters, but Torres hit a high fastball into the right-field stands for a three-run homer.

The Tigers put the game away with seven runs in the eighth inning, including six with two out.

Toronto scored four runs in the ninth off reliever Luke Jackson, who was making his Tigers debut.

Bo Bichette had five of Toronto's 10 hits, extending his on-base streak to 19 games.

The Blue Jays had runners on the corners with two out in the seventh. Brenan Hanifee relieved Tyler Holton and threw a slider over the middle of the plate. The ball left George Springer's bat at 108 mph, but Parker Meadows made a simple catch of the line drive in center field.

The loss prevented Toronto from sweeping a four-game series from the Tigers for the first time in franchise history.

The Blue Jays travel to Baltimore for a four-game series against the Orioles. RHP Chris Bassitt (11-4, 3.88) is scheduled to start Monday's opener.

Detroit remains home for a three-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Tigers face former teammate LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (3-6, 5.50) on Monday night.

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Max Scherzer watches from the dugout in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Detroit Tigers' Parker Meadows (22) and Dillon Dingler, back left, prepare to hug Gleyber Torres, right, after Torres' three-run home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Detroit Tigers' Gleyber Torres hits a three-run home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Jack Flaherty throws in the second inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday on some charges related to his imposition of martial law.

The verdict is the first against Yoon in the eight criminal trials over the decree he issued in late 2024 and other allegations.

The most significant charge against him alleges that he led a rebellion in connection with his martial law enforcement and it carries a potential death penalty.

The Seoul Central District Court in the case decided Friday sentenced him for other charges like his defiance of authorities’ attempts to detain him.

Yoon hasn’t immediately publicly responded to the ruling. But when an independent counsel earlier demanded a 10-year prison term for Yoon over those charges, Yoon’s defense team accused them of being politically driven and lacking legal grounds to demand such “an excessive” sentence.

Yoon has been impeached, arrested and dismissed as president after his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024 triggered huge public protests calling for his ouster.

Yoon maintains he didn’t intend to place the country under military rule for an extended period, saying his decree was only meant to inform the people about the danger of the liberal-controlled parliament which obstructed his agenda. But investigators have viewed Yoon’s decree as an attempt to bolster and prolong his rule, charging him with rebellion, abuse of power and other criminal offenses.

A supporter of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waits for a bus carrying former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs as police officers stand guard outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs and flags outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A picture of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is placed on a board as supporters gather outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)